บท 363: Chapter 351 - Flowery Words and Embellishments

As the representative of the Egyptian Pantheon stepped forward, Lorien also stepped forward, mimicking the Egyptian God down to the smallest of details.

Of course, Lorien disdained to place her cute feet on a ground filled with death, so she just walked in the air…

Alice and Elizabeth gushed as Lorien's cute factor went up a couple percentages…

Lorien even found the time to throw a smug smile at Alle and Ella, as if saying 'see how cute I look? Can't touch this!'…

Alle and Ella were just in awe of their mother.

Despite the latter's weariness towards their cuteness, Alle and Ella only ever sought to impress their mother and father.

Alle, in all her tomboyishness, wanted to impress Zeel so that she could possess what was remaining of the Homo-Superior legacy – The Crawford Household.

Ella, the girlier of the two, sought to impress Lorien so that she could finally get the familial love she so often witnessed on human televisions.

While everyone was busy with their own thoughts, Zeel quickly darted forward and grabbed Lorien's shoulders, pulling her back before she was actually mistaken for their representative.

Lorien pouted angrily, slapping away Zeel's hands with a strength that almost rendered it useless…

Being hit by a Cosmic Force, no matter how softly, was no less than being struck by Heavenly Lightning…

Lorien points at herself, and then at The Egyptian God, Ra, walking forward "Bosses!" she scolds, clearly indicating that the 'Bosses' were about to have a chat.

Lorien glared at Zeel "Respect… status… Pretty?"

"Of course, I respect your status and you are pretty enough but…" Zeel hesitated, trying to look as sad as possible to placate Lorien "… the thing is; you are too pretty… if you go over there and they see that you are very pretty… they won't give you back to me because of your beauty…"

Lorien widened her eyes in realization and then looked down at the ground guiltily, scolding herself for not realizing that her cuteness was so utterly destructive…

"Right…" Lorien whispered, but reaffirmed her will to do what needed to be done the next moment "But… man… house… protect… Pretty… wife… work… table food… discipline… bad… deal… negotiations… leave… sweet cheeks… [But as the man of this house, I need to protect my Pretty Boy so he remains a good wife… I have to work and put food on the table, discipline you when you misbehave and deal with negotiations for the family… so leave this to be me, sweet cheeks…]"

Alice, Elizabeth, Ahmanet, and Himiko gasped as Lorien resumed walking forward in a grandiose manner…

Even if they could not always discern what Lorien was saying, they could more or less guess what she meant just by looking at the appalled look that remained frozen on Zeel's face.

"I think Lorien just put a foot down…" Elizabeth whispered, trying her hardest not to laugh.

However, Alice was never someone to care about Zeel's moods…

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…" she burst into a fit of laughing, followed by Elizabeth, Himiko, and Ahmanet.

"Mom is so cool!" Alle and Ella whispered as they gushed over Lorien for the hundredth time since she arrived.

Zeel recovered from his stunned state and sighed tiredly, gesturing for Alle and Ella to come forth…

However, both girls hesitated since they weren't sure if Zeel had the permission to command them around anymore… was he still the man of the house, or was Lorien in charge now?

It was only after receiving a pat on the back from Alice did both girls respond to Zeel's beckoning…

After all, while there may be a dispute between Zeel and Lorien for 'Boss' status, it was an open secret that Alice had to approve any of the plans Zeel made in the past…

So perhaps she was a 'Hidden Boss'…

Actually, Alice had never been someone particularly playful, but she recognized the tense situation and laughed for everyone to calm their nerves…

Never once did Alice's eyes leave The Egyptian Pantheon…

Had she been given the choice, Alice would have also persuaded Lorien to let Zeel be the representative, but as Zeel's memories showed her, the will of Cosmic Forces were fickle.

It would do nobody any favors if she talked to Lorien and had a disagreement, forcing everyone into an internal brawl for power.

Sharing a mind with Zeel, Alice could tell that he was genuinely worried about Lorien's negotiation skills…

Truly, Zeel was almost certain that should Ra offer Lorien some Egyptian candies, she would sell everyone into slavery aside from him, Ella, and Alle…

Maybe even Ella and Alle would be sold into slavery for a few extra Egyptian candies…

When Ella and Alle had finally arrived before Zeel, Lorien was close to achieving a suitable negotiation distance…

Of course, Ra and Lorien would not meet face to face for negotiations since a battle could break out at any time, and also, there was no need for such close communication as Mystical Entities.

Negotiations such as this would usually take place several kilometers apart, but given that the Death Dimension was reduced to chunks of debris, Lorien found two miles apart suitable for discussion.

"Okay girls… I need to depend on you for what comes next…" Zeel stated, almost pleadingly to the girls and continued "Your mom has difficulty speaking to lower Beings… so you need to translate for her… just remember to embellish whatever she says when you are translating…"

"Embellish?" Ella asked confused.

"Yeah…" Zeel paused and made exaggerated gestures with his hands "You know… like using a lot of flowery words…"

Alle nodded before Ella could ask another question "I will complete the task at hand, Father!"

Without the need for additional explanations, Alle and Ella flashed to Lorien's side…

Thankfully, Lorien was not bothered by having two translators assigned to her negotiations because her earlier act of putting Zeel in his place should have already maxed out her cuteness values for the day.

There was no way Alle and Ella could compare to the cuteness of a 'Boss'.

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Seeing Ella and Alle had joined Lorien's negotiation team, Alice and Elizabeth walked over to Zeel's side, both girls embracing an arm lovingly.

"It has been so long since we could just embrace like this…" Alice whispered, leaning her head on Zeel's cheek as she indulged in the closeness of their minds.

Elizabeth sighed, leaning her head against Zeel's other cheek as she initiated a mind-meld to feel comfort in his mindly-solitude "Is it always going to be like this?"

"As long as you remain with me…" Zeel said, turning left to kiss Alice on the forehead, and then turning right to repeat the action with Elizabeth.

Elizabeth shrugged as if she expected such an answer "I guess we have no choice then…"

Alice didn't reply, she was too busy discerning the slight emotional responses in Zeel's mind…

She was quick to note that his mind was mostly worried about the percentages that governed their backup uploads into the Information Dimension.

'Nanite Stage 4 Upload to Information Dimension: Alice – 20%, Elizabeth – 25% and Zeel – 12%.'

Zeel suddenly disrupted the silence "Help me with something, wives…"

Alice and Elizabeth rolled their eyes as they released his arms… despite being a superior species to humans, Zeel shared one trait with human males – he only called them 'wives' when he wanted something…

And this time, Alice and Elizabeth were sure that it wasn't Anal… it hurt too much the last time and they vowed never to try it again…

Their lame expressions turned severe the next moment when Zeel projected a design into their minds and took out the necessary materials…

"Emospectruminium, Zeelinium, Vibranium, Micro-glass, Loralite, Heavenly Lightning in a bottle, Project Reverse – black holes, Reverse Energy in a bottle, Gold Essence, Homo-Superior Blood, and all remaining Homo-Superior Techniques…"

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Lorien, Ella, and Alle came to a stop at the perfect position for negotiations…

Ra similarly came to a stop a couple of miles away from Lorien…

Ra carried the atmosphere of a King of Gods but even he knew that he could not take on Lorien alone, but he was fairly confident in victory if at least half of the Pantheon pooled their strength together…

Even Ra could tell that Lorien was a weakened Cosmic Force, and a weakened Cosmic Force could be captured and used for lucrative business ventures…

The only thought in Alle's and Ella's minds at this time was 'Embellish… Embellish… Embellish…'

The only thought in Lorien's mind at this time was 'Max Cuteness… Max Cuteness… Max Cuteness…'

And hence the negotiations started…

"Greetings, Cosmic Force…" Ra shouted, his voice echoing across the void.

"Uh-hum… cough… cough…" Lorien cleared her throat hearing Ra's greeting and spoke as sternly as possible "Speak… no… surrender…"

"Ahuh… ahuh… ahuh… ahuh…" Alle pulled a pen and paper from Elizabeth's storage dimension and began writing notes as if to grasp the essence of whatever Lorien just said.

"Translate?" Ra asked, guessing that was the purpose for Alle's and Ella's presence here.

"She said…" Alle paused, passing her notes to Ella "Who gave you the permission to speak to me you diseased rhinoceros pizzle!"

[a/n Yes, that is from coming to America – the girls peeked into that Universe at some time while messing around…]

Ella continued reading the notes where Alle left off "You scum of the Earth, pieces of shit that shame Egyptians… you fucking disgusting, camel-fucking degenerates of Egypt… you stinking asses, trash of the trash of Babylon's shit stain!

Your mother was a whore… your father was a whore… your dogs were whores too, humping every fucking tree with their tiny weewee…"

Ella paused after reading 'weewee'…

"What's a weewee?" she asked Alle confused.

"Don't pause… you'll ruin the embellishments and flowery words…" Alle scolded, but sighed the next moment and changed her instructions "Forget it… you already ruined it so just skip to the end…"

"Uh-hum… cough, cough… sorry, just a bit of performance anxiety…" Ella apologized, not minding the stunned faces of the entire Egyptian Pantheon as she deepened her voice and continued "In conclusion, if you guys don't surrender, we will fuck you up, BBBBYYYYAAATTTCCCHHHHH…"

Silence reigned for the next five minutes while Ella and Alle giggled happily because, for the first time since she arrived, Lorien had actually glanced at them with approval in her eyes.

Alle and Ella spun around, flashing two raised thumbs at Zeel as if asking 'Did we embellish and add enough flowery words?'…

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Zeel's fingers stiffened when Ella and Alle started their 'translation'…

Thankfully, Alice and Elizabeth were there to continue working on the device he was building…

Alice's and Elizabeth's fingers were moving at blinding speeds as they tweaked the device to Zeel's specifications, but anger bubbled inside their hearts since they knew Ella and Alle probably learned all those dirty words from Zeel.

Zeel knelt onto the ground weakly "I now know what Human parents mean when they say 'my children will be the death of me'…"

He glanced at Lorien's pleased face, Alle's and Ella's giggles and suddenly came to a realization…

"These people are fucking crazy!"

'Coming from you?' Alice and Elizabeth thought simultaneously, not missing the irony of the situation.

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